Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compr…

Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. ✨ Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems, p.158, Library of America
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Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. ✨ Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems, p.158, Library of America

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